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chrisaltrock

Chris Altrock is an author, spiritual director and preacher, serving as the Senior Minister at the Stamford Church of Christ. He and his wife Kendra are parents to Jordan and Jacob.

The Gift of Contemplative Prayer #1

I’m reading through Richard Rohr’s book on contemplative prayer Everything Belongs.  In chapter one Rohr lays out his thesis: “We are a circumference people, with little access to the center.  We live on the boundaries of our own lives…confusing edges with essence, too quickly claiming the superficial as substance.” (13).  Rohr believes that for too many of us, life is primarily defined by and described by actitivies and issues that are not at the real core of life.  Read More »The Gift of Contemplative Prayer #1

A Poet’s Look at the Environment

My earliest memory of facing an environmental issue is from my 5th or 6th grade year.  My mom had moved to Las Cruces, NM with my step-dad.  Las Cruces was a thirty minute drive from El Paso, TX which sat across the Rio Grande from Juarez, Mexico.  When I visited my mom (I was living with my dad elsewhere) we would often drive to El Paso.  There were shops there which we didn’t have in Las Cruces.  Each drive to El Paso took us past a large industrial factory on the outskirts of El Paso.  The factory was located near the homes of thousands of the poor in Juarez, Mexico who lived in cinder block homes.  From miles in any direction you could see thick colored smoke pouring out of the smoke stack of the factory.  Day and night smoke spewed out of the factory.  Read More »A Poet’s Look at the Environment